Casey Daniels wrote: > I was just playing around with my LFS Box (which is going to operate as > a Router/Firewall/A few network services (NTP, SquidProxy, et C) and > wanted to add IPv6 support to it, I got the tunnel to HE electric up and > running, and everything but was looking to add the IPv6 address to the > internal Network Interfaces, this is where I ran into a snag, and > haven't found any information about how others have over come the issue. > > To get IPv6 on the internal interfaces I think I've found 3 different > ways to support it, but none of the 3 really look appealing and was > wondering if someone else has done it, and how they did it. > > 1. Manually use ip add commands every time I boot > Disadvantage - No Automatic at Boot Time > > 2. Create a Script and tie it into the init.d directories > Advantage - Automatic at Boot Time > Disadvantage - Kinda of messy as the Network > Interfaces are configured by two different mechanisms > > 3. Add it to the ifconfig.eth0, etc files (I may be wrong with my > understanding of the work here so if I am please correct me) > Advantage - Cleanest Approach, as all boot > network configuration is handled by the same mechanism > > Disadvantage (for Single Stack - IPv6 Only) - > Think I would have to add a /lib/services/ipv6-static file which doesn't > look like it would > be all that hard, just copy the > ipv4-static file and make a few small changes to reflect the > ip commands being used for inet6 > instead of inet4 > > Disadvantage (for Dual Stack - IPv6 and IPv4) - > This would take a fair amount of work I believe. I would still have to > create the /lib/services file mentioned in the IPv6 only > Solution, but then from what I can tell the ifup would have to > also be modified to run through the config part twice (or 1,000 times) > to configure more than 1 protocol on an adapter.
We would need a ipv6-static service in /lib/services/. Then the only thing would be to add /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0.ipv6 (the file name only needs to start with ifconfig) with: ONBOOT=yes IFACE=eth0 SERVICE=ipv6-static IP=<ipv6-addr> GATEWAY=<ipv6-gw> # PREFIX=24 -- not sure this would be needed BROADCAST=<ipv6-broadcast> This is essentially the same way you would add a 2nd IPv4 address to an interface. I don't have a way to test ipv6 though. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
